Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.

Alone in my bedroom, I realized I couldn't remember the last time I'd truly laughed.

Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away.

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

Zounds, Zounds, VI-I-IX!

I'm a very emotional person.

I was just talking to Benedict [Cumberbatch] who's got a little baby and knows his father lives in his phone. We as humans are evolving really fast, so everyday we're hit with that.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?